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Article

1 Jan 2004

Author:
Fast Company [Comments by: Georg Kell, Global Compact; Madeleine Albright; Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems; Debra Dunn, Hewlett-Packard; Tachi Kiuchi, Mitsubishi Electric]

Fast Talk: Hail, global citizens!

When we launched the Global Compact in 2000, only a handful of companies had explicit policies on human rights...A year later...many of those companies made a choice to take a stand in their sphere of influence.